ebm

0.1.0

Explainable Boosting Machines

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Overview

About

Maintained by Brandon M. GreenwellFirst published 2025-03-051 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

An interface to the 'Python' 'InterpretML' framework for fitting explainable boosting machines (EBMs); see Nori et al. (2019) doi:10.48550/arXiv.1909.09223 for details. EBMs are a modern type of generalized additive model that use tree-based, cyclic gradient boosting with automatic interaction detection. They are often as accurate as state-of-the-art blackbox models while remaining completely interpretable.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("ebm", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("bgreenwell/ebm")

Development version from bgreenwell/ebm. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-ebm

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-ebm

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-ebm

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

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Documentation

READMEYes · 86 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 75%
References docs: 0%

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GitHub ↗ bgreenwell/ebm

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Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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2026-03-10 · current release
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-03-05
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 854 KB
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